'Tuah ayam (Lampung)': lucky and unlucky signs in fighting cocks. A copy in the Lampung script, on 6ff., yellow paper, has at the head, in pencil: 'Dr. Nils Fock'. With this is an English description, headed: 'A Lampung manuscript described by P. Voorhoeve (published in the Catalogue, Copenhagen)', 15ff. typescript.

Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975) > First Deposit > Copies of Texts from Manuscripts in the Rencong and Lampung Scripts and Romanized Transliterations from South Sumatra, with source locations identified > 'Tuah ayam (Lampung)': lucky and unlucky signs in fighting cocks. A copy in the Lampung script, on 6ff., yellow paper, has at the head, in pencil: 'Dr. Nils Fock'. With this is an English description, headed: 'A Lampung manuscript described by P. Voorhoeve (published in the Catalogue, Copenhagen)', 15ff. typescript.

Reference No:: U DJA/2/17
Dates:: late 20th cent.
Description:: Pp.8-11 of the typescript contain a text of this tuah ayam in romanized transliteration and English translation in parallel columns. The original is a bark book, 26 folds, 6 x 6 cm (C.a.181), described by P. Voorhoeve in 'Copenhagen, Royal Library, Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts', vol.4, pt.2, 1977, p.146. A facsimile of the text is given by H.N. van der Tuuk in 'Les manuscrits lampongs en possession de M. le Baron Sloet van de Beele', Leiden, 1868, Ms. C, pp.14-16.
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Repository:: Hull University Archives
Collection:: Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)